The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-18
PERSONAL.

ALMOST enough money has been subscribed to
build that summer cottage for Walt Whitman.
Mrs. MARY T. CRAMER, sister of Gen Grant.
is speaking in New York at an indoor camp
| meeting"
Brick PoMERoY thinks that no man who
uses intoxicauts of any kind should hold any
political Office.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE is reading the plays
of Sophocles in the original this summer at her
home in Newport.
| THE King of Saxony intends to present Queen
Victoria with some splendid pieces OF Dresden
china as jubilee gift
GEN. BoULANGER has written to friends in
Baltimore, Md, that he is in good health and a
contented frame of mind,
DIR. BRIDGE, DR.. Stainer, DIR. Stanford, Mr..
Barnby and Mr.. CuSius, all eminent English mn
sicianS, are to be knighted.
PRINCE LOUIS, eldest son of the regent of Ba-
varia, and heir to the crown, is % years of age
and the father of nine children.
Pretty Maud Granger, with the gold-brown
| eyes and shapely form, first earned her liveli-
hood by running sewing machine.
wArr WHITMAN says the Boston Globe, will
shortly take up his residence in Boston, and be-
come one of the wise men of the East"
THE Queen celebrated her birthday at Balmo-
raj by presenting small gifts made with her own
hands, to the members of her household.
N.
said to have cleared S1,OOO,000 this year by the
sale of that delectable article. He will want to
belong TO the upper crust"
Rev. DR. HENRY NJ scUDDER has given in his
old church in San Francisco a farewell lecture
on Japan. preparatory TO going to that country
to spend the remainder of his life.
THE mother of Clara Louise Kellogg strained
every nerve to give Clara musical education
and at one time was a professional spiritual me
dunn. Miss Kellogg failed three times.
MISS MARIA MITCHELL, the astronomer was
the daughter of a small farmer in Nantucket
who was obliged to exc out his income by teach
ing school at 81 week Maria was constantly
occupied with household duties
r. b SEARS. the champion lawn tennis PLAYER
of America, is young man with blonde hair, a
delicate blonde moustache and very ruddy
carefully dressed and smokes cigarettes. Of
course he is delicate
VAssAR COLLEGE has Just conferred the hon.
orary degree of LII. d. on Mrs. Christine Iadd
Franklin, of Baltimore, whose attachments in
mathematics and logic had previously been rec
ogniZed by her appointment as fellow of the
Johns Hopkins University.
LAFcADIo HEARN, whose last book 'sSome
Chinese Ghosts, has won the admiration of
lovers of literature was few years ago a re.
porter on Cincinnati paper mt meagre salary
His specially was feature" articles, and in this
he did some very good work before he became
known to his present large audience.
Dr. GEORGE w. CHTLDs. while acting as Presi.
dent OF the Board of Visitors at West Point.
visited the cemetery and finding that many
graves OF officers were not tittingly marked
with memorials for the brave men there in.
tered, gave orders 10 an architect to make i'm.
provements He has also ordered tablet 30
commemorate the change Of Mess Hall TO
Grant Hail"
The number Of nickels swallowed by the Sc.
weighing machines throughout the country is
enormous. Strangely enough the inventor an
Englishman named Percival Everjtt. is making
money out of his clever device for collecting the
small change of the community. A company.
Of which Erastus Wiman is President, has charge
OF the machine, and Everitt receives good roy.
atty on every sale
GEoRGE w. CHLDs never does things by
halves. Gems. Sherman and Sheridan expressed
a wish while at West Point recently TO have
their portraits placed beside that OF Grant In
Grant Hall Mr.. Childs, who presented West
Point with the portrait of Grant, told Sherman
and Sheridan that he would gladly add their
pictures TO his gift, and added that they we're al
liberty 20 choose their own artists The Dor.
traits OF the two Generals are TO be the same
size as that OF Gen Grant.